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Agists vs Gists - What's the difference?

agists | gists |

As a verb agists

is (agist).

As a noun gists is

(rare).

agists

English

Verb

(head)
  • (agist)

    • agist

    English

    Etymology

    From Anglo-Norman agister (to pasture for a fee)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.

    • Related terms

    * agister

    Anagrams

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    gists

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (rare)
  • * There's evidence that even our unconscious efficiently only stores the gists of memories.
  • * He made a listing of the gists of 1,000 consecutive episodes.
  • * The gists of the reports, however, their logic, their structural coherence, are molded by a concern to reconstruct the past.
  • * 1601 , (Philemon Holland)'s translation of (w, Pliny's Natural History) , 1st ed., book X, chapter XXIII “Of Swallowes, Ousles, or Merles, Thrushes, Stares or Sterlings, Turtles, and Stockdoves.”, p. 282:
  • ** These Quailes have their set gists', to wit, ordinarie resting and baiting places. [These quails have their set ' gists , to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places.]
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